Perfect Peace

Good morning, everyone.

I do plan to start interacting with other bloggers again and have already begun to do so. But it’s strange. After you have been on a blogging journey for a long time, and you reach a level in your writing career where you feel you have matured to the point where you know your own mind, you become less interested in learning from others and more interested in sharing your knowledge with others.

In the early days of this blog, there were heated exchanges, particularly around the Christian faith. A lot of people went silent after I believe I made them rethink the idea of free will, especially as it relates to Christian theology and the Abrahamic religions. I also learned a great deal about Christian theology through very many discussions with other bloggers, some of whom still read my articles, I think and hope.

I have felt very passionate about writing since my secondary school days. I remember scribbling out my thoughts frenetically in the exam hall and excelling in my essay writing to a sufficient extent as to be accepted into a university, though my passion for music led me in a different direction to my father’s preferred direction of Law. I didn’t have a long discussion with my parents about which university course to pursue, and maybe would have liked to talk further with my father about this, but my father rarely entered into discussions with me about, well, anything at all really.

I ended up studying Commercial Music, because as a guitarist and songwriter who had been heavily influenced by the messages of justice and equality in the songs of bands like Rage Against The Machine and Red Hot Chili Peppers, I felt that music was the greatest source of strength, love and truth that I had in my life, other than my ceaselessly loving mother.

Both of my parents supported my musical aspirations to some extent, my mother fully supportive and driving me to rehearsals and studio sessions with my band Marconi’s Voodoo, and my father wearing one of our band hoodies at a show and stepping in to show concern when the staff at the local music shop, Modern Music, acted in an extremely liberal way with the musical instruments we were allowed to take home and borrow the sets of strings and plectrums in relation to which there was a culture of stealing. It didn’t feel like stealing at the time, and the music industry has always been rather liberal in terms of the law – musicians are a crazy bunch and we are sometimes so passionate about our craft and the principles we hold of freedom, honesty, and cameraderie, that we get so excited about making a positive difference in the world that it causes us to be rather liberal with the law, much to our disgrace.

After my university days, and following an admission to psychiatric hospital, I became a Christian and the trajectory of my life moved in the direction of Christian living and work related to the study of Philosophy and Religion, and that’s what lead me to begin my first blog, Light of the World, in 2012, which eventually developed into Perfect Chaos.

I have just realised that I am straying into autobiography, so I will reign in what seems to be an emerging desire to write a follow-up to The Philosophy of a Mad Man (my first autobioraphy) and return to the matter of my latest book ‘Reflections’.

There are three very good reasons why ‘Reflections’ offers a stimulating read:

1. It is a short book that can be enjoyed in the time it takes to drink a leisurely coffee.
2. It contains a condensed exposition of the most important aspects of my philosophical perspective related to free will and religion.
3. It is the best book ever written, according to God!

Once again, I have been so severely abused by others in society (particularly in the mental health system) that I am unable to focus on writing in the way I would like to at this time. But I trust in the goodness, love, and mercy of God, who promises me I have a very long and very bright future ahead of me.

Have a wonderful day, and do consider reading Reflections which is available on a ‘Pay As You Wish’ basis as a paperback and an eBook exclusively through StevenColborne.com.

With love,

Steven x